Mars crosses the last Jupiter-Neptune conjunction

[Jim Eshelman]

Tomorrow, Mars crosses 29°25' Capricorn, the longitude of the last Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, which occurred December 21, 2009.

As mentioned in another thread last week, one long-standing theory in mundane astrology is that major planet conjunctions remain active for the entire course of their cycle until the next such conjunction, and are subject to transit. In the case of Jupiter-Neptune, that means for about 13 years. (The next conjunction is spring 2022.) The theory continues that the expression of the transit matches the nature of the planets and usually signals development of circumstances that began about the time of the original conjunction.

So... what should we expect? How will it contrast to events surrounding Mars' transit of the last Jupiter-Saturn conjunction last week? My first impression is that it will be popping a bubble in speculative idealism (although, remember, Mars has aspected this degree half two dozen times since late 2009). A lot of this depends on what the 13-year Jupiter-Neptune cycle actually means.

Economically, late 2009 followed a serious economic crash in 2008. For a year, the government had been dumping incentive money into the economy and the market was starting to recover. Business entities recovered fastest, small businesses more slowly, and typical individuals weren't tending to see the benefits yet. The stock market had started a climb ten months early that only broke in February of this year and may still be vulnerable to deflation.

Outside of directly economic matters, what I find most curious is a lot of news about the abundance of water in the universe, with discovery that there is a significant amount of water in one Moon crater and the first discovery of an extra-stellar planet that could have water.

For the U.S., the conjunction December 21, 2009, 3:50:30 AM EST was conjunct Moon and fell exactly on Washington's IC. (Mars on MC was in somewhat wide opposition.)